Vietnam Returns Remains Of 10 Possible Mias

OTHER NEWS TO NOTE - WASHINGTON

December 16, 1992

The unidentified remains of 10 people were flown Tuesday from Hanoi to Hawaii to determine whether they belong to American soldiers missing in action from the Vietnam War, a U.S. military spokesman said.

In a military ceremony at Noi Bai airport, casketlike cases containing the remains were loaded onto a military plane bound for the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory in Honolulu, Army Lt. Col. David Fredrikson said.

Fredrikson is the spokesman for the Pentagon task force charged with resolving the cases of the 2,264 servicemen still missing from the war, which ended in 1975.

The United States has had no diplomatic or economic ties with Vietnam since the Communists overran the south in 1975. American policy is to maintain the embargo until Vietnam has helped to make a satisfactory accounting for the missing men.